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Watch list - sort by seller name - Why has this never worked?

For years I have been wishing this feature worked in the app on iOS. Sort by seller name produces a seemingly random ordering.

Sort by time (ending soonest or newly listed) or price seems fine. But even with the latest version of the app, sort by seller name fails. Why is this so hard to make work?

jbartelt

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Posted 8 months ago·Last reply 8 months ago

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kyle@ebay

Admin8 months ago

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@jbartelt wrote:

For years I have been wishing this feature worked in the app on iOS. Sort by seller name produces a seemingly random ordering.

Sort by time (ending soonest or newly listed) or price seems fine. But even with the latest version of the app, sort by seller name fails. Why is this so hard to make work?

Hey @jbartelt just wanted to jump in and let you know this is sorting based on the seller's user ID, rather than the store name. That's why the results can look mixed up at times.

jbartelt

OP8 months ago

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"sorting based on the seller's user ID" is exactly what I want, but that is not what is happening in the app (works fine in the browser). For example, I am watching multiple items from 'silverscreenmementos', and they are not grouped together; several other sellers' items are interspersed among them. Some of their items appear very early in the supposedly sorted watch list, which is clearly wrong for a user ID starting with "s". Thanks for responding, but confusing store name and user ID is not the issue.